This report is about mass shootings in 2018. The data is retrieved fromhttp://www.shootingtracker.com/, a total of 340 shootings have occured in 2018, with a total of 373 people have been killed. The city that was most impacted by mass shootings (based on the total number of deaths and injuries in the cities) is Chicago. The state that was most impacted is California. The date in 2018 that has most peopele killed or injured due to mass shootings is/are February 14, 2018, June 10, 2018.
This summary table lists the total number of victims(killed and injured) in each city due to mass shootings in 2018. The cities are sorted from the highest number of victims to the lowest.
state city num_victim
1 Illinois Chicago 135
2 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 49
3 Tennessee Memphis 43
4 Missouri Saint Louis 38
5 Louisiana New Orleans 35
6 Florida Pompano Beach (Parkland) 34
7 Florida Jacksonville 30
8 California Los Angeles 26
9 Florida Miami 25
10 District of Columbia Washington 25
11 Ohio Cleveland 24
12 New Jersey Trenton 24
13 Maryland Baltimore 23
14 Texas Santa Fe 23
15 Michigan Detroit 20
16 Florida Orlando 20
17 Nevada Las Vegas 18
18 California Oakland 18
19 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 18
20 Nebraska Omaha 17
21 California San Francisco 17
22 Colorado Aurora 16
23 Kentucky Benton 16
24 Texas Houston 16
25 Minnesota Minneapolis 15
26 California Thousand Oaks 15
27 New York Buffalo 14
28 Missouri Kansas City 14
29 Florida Palm Beach Gardens (Riviera Beach) 14
30 New York Brooklyn 13
31 Texas San Antonio 13
32 California San Bernardino 12
33 California Bakersfield 11
34 Alabama Birmingham 11
35 Texas Dallas 11
36 Missouri Springfield 11
37 Ohio Cincinnati 10
38 Colorado Colorado Springs 10
39 Ohio Lima 10
40 Tennessee Nashville 10
41 Michigan Saginaw 10
42 Louisiana Shreveport 10
43 Virginia Virginia Beach 10
44 Ohio Columbus 9
45 Colorado Denver 9
46 Indiana Indianapolis 9
47 New Jersey Jersey City 9
48 California Modesto 9
49 Virginia Richmond 9
50 California Vallejo 9
51 Georgia Albany 8
52 Georgia Atlanta 8
53 Illinois Bloomington 8
54 New York Bronx 8
55 South Carolina Florence 8
56 Indiana Gary 8
57 Mississippi Hazlehurst 8
58 Alabama Huntsville 8
59 Wisconsin Madison 8
60 Wisconsin Milwaukee 8
61 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 8
62 New Jersey Paterson 8
63 Arkansas Pine Bluff 8
64 Florida Tallahassee 8
65 Maryland Aberdeen 7
66 Tennessee Antioch 7
67 Georgia Ashburn 7
68 North Carolina Asheville 7
69 Kentucky Louisville 7
70 California Riverside 7
71 North Carolina Sanford 7
72 Florida Bradenton 6
73 Alabama Brandon 6
74 Ohio Cleveland (Garfield Heights) 6
75 Mississippi Hattiesburg 6
76 Florida Lake Worth (Lantana) 6
77 Texas Ponder 6
78 Indiana South Bend 6
79 South Carolina Spartanburg 6
80 Alabama Union Springs 6
81 California Valley Village 6
82 Florida Alachua 5
83 Maryland Annapolis 5
84 New Jersey Asbury Park 5
85 Alabama Auburn 5
86 Tennessee Chattanooga 5
87 California Clearlake 5
88 Tennessee Columbia 5
89 New York Corona (Queens) 5
90 Alabama Eutaw 5
91 Indiana Fort Wayne 5
92 New Mexico Gallup 5
93 California Gardena 5
94 South Carolina Greenwood 5
95 Indiana Indianapolis (Lawrence) 5
96 California Inglewood 5
97 Tennessee Jackson 5
98 California Los Angeles (Watts) 5
99 Pennsylvania Masontown 5
100 North Carolina Maxton 5
101 Pennsylvania Melcroft 5
102 Wisconsin Middleton 5
103 Alabama Mobile 5
104 Kentucky Paintsville 5
105 Arizona Phoenix 5
106 Texas Robstown 5
107 Illinois Rockford 5
108 Missouri Saint Charles 5
109 California San Diego 5
110 Ohio Sandusky 5
111 Maryland Silver Spring 5
112 California Stockton 5
113 Washington Sunnyside 5
114 New York Syracuse 5
115 Texas Taft 5
116 Oklahoma Talihina 5
117 South Carolina Timmonsville 5
118 California Tracy 5
119 California Union City 5
120 New York Watertown 5
121 Alabama Wetumpka 5
122 Delaware Wilmington 5
123 Pennsylvania Wyncote 5
124 Indiana Anderson 4
125 California Baldwin Park 4
126 Louisiana Baton Rouge 4
127 Massachusetts Boston 4
128 Kentucky Bowling Green 4
129 Connecticut Bridgeport 4
130 Arkansas Brinkley 4
131 Mississippi Byhalia 4
132 New Jersey Camden 4
133 Illinois Champaign 4
134 North Carolina Charlotte 4
135 Illinois Chicago Heights 4
136 California Compton 4
137 Tennessee Covington 4
138 Alabama Demopolis 4
139 North Carolina Dunn 4
140 Arkansas El Dorado 4
141 Illinois Elgin 4
142 New Jersey Elizabeth 4
143 New Mexico Espanola (Española) 4
144 Michigan Flint 4
145 Florida Fort Lauderdale (Lauderhill) 4
146 Arkansas Fort Smith 4
147 Maryland Fort Washington 4
148 Texas Fort Worth 4
149 Arizona Globe 4
150 Connecticut Hartford 4
151 Illinois Harvey 4
152 New York Hempstead 4
153 North Carolina Henderson 4
154 North Carolina Hickory 4
155 Pennsylvania Homestead (Munhall) 4
156 Alabama Hurtsboro 4
157 Florida Indiantown 4
158 North Carolina Kannapolis 4
159 Washington Lakewood 4
160 Michigan Lansing 4
161 North Carolina Laurinburg 4
162 Arkansas Little Rock 4
163 California Long Beach (North Long Beach) 4
164 Louisiana Lutcher 4
165 Florida Macclenny 4
166 Georgia Macon 4
167 North Carolina Monroe 4
168 Alabama Montgomery 4
169 Louisiana Morganza 4
170 Louisiana Natchitoches 4
171 Louisiana New Orleans (Algiers) 4
172 California Palo Alto (East Palo Alto) 4
173 New Jersey Paulsboro 4
174 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh (East Liberty) 4
175 Texas Plano 4
176 Florida Plantation 4
177 Florida Pompano Beach 4
178 Tennessee Powell 4
179 Florida Punta Gorda 4
180 Pennsylvania Reading 4
181 Florida Reddick 4
182 Missouri Saint Robert (St Robert) 4
183 Utah Salt Lake City (West Valley City) 4
184 Georgia Savannah 4
185 Washington Seattle (Skyway) 4
186 Oklahoma Stillwater 4
187 Georgia Swainsboro 4
188 Colorado Thornton 4
189 Oklahoma Tulsa 4
190 North Carolina Wadesboro 4
191 Tennessee Wartburg 4
192 Florida West Palm Beach 4
193 Colorado Westminster 4
194 Kansas Wichita 4
195 Texas Wichita Falls 4
196 Pennsylvania York 4From this table, we can tell that the Chicago is the city with most victims. It is far more impacted by mass shottings than any other cities in the U.S. becasue there were almost three times as many victims as the second place cities, and it is the only city that has the number of victims over 100 in 2018.
For the city Baltimore, Maryland, the incident with most victims in 2018 happened on June 30, 2018 at 4000 block of Penhurst Ave. There were 6 people who were hurt in this incident. There were 0 deaths and 6 injuries. According to The Baltimore Sun, “The victims’ injuries were not life-threatening, police said. Detectives and officers are canvassing the neighborhood and interviewing witnesses.”
Here is an interactive map based on the data of mass shootings in 2018 in the U.S.
From this map, we can tell that there were much more shootings happened on the East coast. In the southeast city Pompano Beach, there is a mass shooting that caused 17 deaths and 17 injuries, whic marks a large circle on the map.Below is an interacive bar chart that shows the total number of victims due to mass shootings in each month in the year of 2018.
My question is, in which month is there most victim due to mass shootings?The bar chart shows us that the month with most people killed and injuried under mass shootings is June. I chose to use a bar chart becasue bar chart is good at comparing numbers with the height of each bar. My question was asking the heighest number of victims, and the bar chart visualizes number into bars, with higher bar for larger number. In this way, I can easily tell that the bar for month June is heighest and can answer the question.